Happy New Year! A warm thanks to everyone who's subscribed to my Substack since I launched it early in 2025. Plenty more will be coming there in 2026. www.lukewsavage.com/p/2025-a-yea...

“In the centrist imagination, it seems, we are always perpetually One Weird Trick away from achieving the utopian ambitions of liberal capitalism: just eliminate some regulations & you’ll soon have flying cars & high-speed rail.” - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

In 1946 George Orwell warned that vagueness and convolution were destroying the English language. Today, writing and speech are plagued by very different problems. www.lukewsavage.com/p/anti-polit...

Liberal democracy versus socialist democracy www.lukewsavage.com/p/liberal-de...

“The NDP can’t call itself a national party if its leaders can’t speak French” From @lukewsavage.bsky.social

Grateful to @thewalrus.ca for publishing my Substack piece on the NDP and its recent leadership debate in Montreal thewalrus.ca/the-ndp-cant...

Grateful to @thewalrus.ca for publishing my Substack piece on the NDP and its recent leadership debate in Montreal thewalrus.ca/the-ndp-cant...

The NDP's first official leadership debate did a disservice to the party, its members, to francophones, and to Quebec. After April's result, there needs to be real & substantive debate about what happened and what should happen next. This wasn't it. www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-re...

The NDP's first official leadership debate did a disservice to the party, its members, to francophones, and to Quebec. After April's result, there needs to be real & substantive debate about what happened and what should happen next. This wasn't it. www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-re...

On Kathy Hochul, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party, and Edmund Burke www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-democr...

A live discussion of what happens when liberal democracy fails with @lukewsavage.bsky.social and others - check it out: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

NEW: Cosmopolitan socialism or decadent cruelty? In the wake of Mamdani's historic victory in NYC, I wrote some reflections on the very stark choice before us as the liberal centre continues to collapse. www.lukewsavage.com/p/two-futures

“Call it a reverse rainbow coalition. In truth, I doubt there’s ever been such a potent & sweeping metaphor for the moral rot of America’s bipartisan establishment.” Socialism or barbarism in the Big Apple - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

"Mamdani’s campaign has been both a fiercely disciplined effort in bread-and-butter left populism and a living testament to the boundless cosmopolitanism of New York City and all that makes multiracial democracy so precious and wonderful." jacobin.com/2025/11/soci...

Sometimes it really is socialism or barbarism. Zohran for Mayor. www.lukewsavage.com/p/socialism-...

This postseason made me a Blue Jays fan for life 💙

Last night’s loss at the Skydome has left me feeling heavier than I think I’ve ever felt about a game. But the past month I've felt so much special warmth and love towards this city, and I know I'm not alone. Here's to our city and our Blue Jays. www.lukewsavage.com/p/game-7-the...

It's over. www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-britis...

At some point the Democratic Party will have to learn that its failing communication strategies are a reflection of the fact that it is an institution with almost no real infrastructure. jacobin.com/2025/08/demo...

TOM PAINE: THE FIRST "NO KINGS" REBEL w/Harvey J. Kaye — and No Economic Royalists Either! 🇺🇸 youtube.com/watch?v=qSxL...

The liberal obsession with means-testing is both dogmatic and dishonest www.lukewsavage.com/p/wealthy-ne...

What did “free trade” really do for North America? Journalist and author @lukewsavage.bsky.social says it made both countries more unequal —empowering corporations while weakening workers and democracy. 🎧 Episode 5 of our Trade series is live ➡️ buff.ly/qOfLlTR

The liberal obsession with means-testing is both dogmatic and dishonest www.lukewsavage.com/p/wealthy-ne...

LISTEN: A @ricochetmedia.bsky.social Conversation Recorded Live @ Union Local 613 w/ @lukewsavage.bsky.social - “Living in the Age of #Fascism, #AI & #Genocide: (Re)Considering #EdBroadbent & #SocialDemocracy” podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

Kamala Harris's Campaign Memoir is a Tour-de-Force of Democratic Delusion www.lukewsavage.com/p/kamala-har...

Really important piece thewalrus.ca/a-veteran-re...

Never done podcasting like this before, but turns out it rocks. Special thanks to @caradrianh.bsky.social, my new favourite interviewer and to everyone who came out. Our convo will be up soon here. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

The Future of Independent Media Summit kicks off THIS FRIDAY with a live taping of @ricochetmedia.bsky.social's podcast, In Bed with the Elephant, hosted by @caradrianh.bsky.social featuring ✨special guest @lukewsavage.bsky.social!✨ Tickets here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future...

If you happen to be in Ottawa this Friday, I'll be doing a live show with Adrian Harewood — host of the excellent In Bed with the Elephant podcast to launch this year's Future of Independent Media Summit. Hope to see you there! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-future...

"Since the Trump era began, there has been a glaring contradiction at the heart of the rhetoric deployed against him by mainstream Democrats," writes @lukewsavage.bsky.social.

In a long line of politically inept and morally compromised leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are losers without peer www.lukewsavage.com/p/if-this-is...

“… Abundance is a middlebrow airport book that’s been elevated more because it’s ideas are useful to the corporatist side of an intra-liberal factional fight than because they are intellectually rich or analytically sound.” - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

Is Donald Trump a communist? With a little help from Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris, I explore a very important question: www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-donald-...

"The guiding ideal of Ed Broadbent’s public life was that liberal rights like freedom of speech and freedom of expression are necessary but insufficient guarantors of democratic equality," – @lukewsavage.bsky.social Ed Broadbent on free speech: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/democratic-free-speech/

Inspired by Cass Sunstein's recent musings on Star Wars and Henry Kissinger: a piece on his unbelievably flimsy case for liberalism. www.lukewsavage.com/p/in-defence...

Elite liberals are determined to learn absolutely nothing www.lukewsavage.com/p/perhaps-de...

Inspired by Cass Sunstein's recent musings on Star Wars and Henry Kissinger: a piece on his unbelievably flimsy case for liberalism. www.lukewsavage.com/p/in-defence...

"...the whole episode merely underscores how tenuous even the most basic democratic values really are when the ultimate determinant — in either direction — amounts to the self-interest of private corporations."

Elite liberals are determined to learn absolutely nothing www.lukewsavage.com/p/perhaps-de...

On a new episode of 🍎THE ORCHARDCAST🍎 @readtheorchard.org chard.org sits down with @lukewsavage.bsky.social to discuss Canada's prime minister in theory and practice in a conversation exploring The Carney Doctrine. www.readtheorchard.org/p/the-carney... 🔶

“This is why liberalism is the perfect ideology for capitalism. It demolishes those taboos that restrain expansion. Even the finest talk about internationalism opens markets for the powerful.” Technology & Empire - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl brings new archival evidence to bear against her longstanding denials of closeness to the Nazi regime. www.lukewsavage.com/p/fascinatin...

This was so much fun

"In the 21st century, centrist politics has supplied us with a never-ending stream of sentient press releases who are congenitally incapable of conveying even the slightest trace of authenticity or humanity. Sir Keir, somehow, leaves every one of them in the dust." 😂

Episode art for next week's podcast featuring @lukewsavage.bsky.social

In their fruitless quest to outflank the far-right, elite liberals on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly indistinguishable from the very thing they claim to be a bulwark against www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-age-of...

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“When someone says ‘the economy’ in a political debate or conversation, they almost invariably mean the one that currently exists around us, without any sense that the thing they’re referring to is a political institution at all.” - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

10,000 Air Canada flight attendants proved what Ed Broadbent argued for in 1969: democracy is incomplete until it reaches the workplace. @lukewsavage.bsky.social reflects on industrial democracy in commentary on Ed's landmark 1969 speech: broadbentinstitute.ca/research/industrial-democracy-action/